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Late to respond, but here's one such link: https://web.archive.org/web/20130118213127/https://www.overc...

Title of the post is "Hail Scott Siskind" from Robin Hanson's blog Overcoming Bias. This blog was a central point of the early rationalist movement.

Notably, posts like this were scrubbed some time near the New York Times debacle. There was an active effort to scrub mentions of "Siskind" from rationalist adjacent blogs around that time.

It was amazingly effective at rewriting the history. You won't find any mention of the activities to scrub "Siskind" from the rationalist blogs, though.



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